Part II:
"The post mortem hair banding analysis was a joke. Even the State's own witness said they didn't even know what other factors could lead to the banding found on the ONE hair in the trunk. Their tests, which were specifically conducted to try to prove something of value against this chick, were conducted in January in Tennessee. Not in 95 degree humidity. When asked what could explain the banding, the expert himself said he didn't know. What else could cause it? He didn't know that either. But the Defense witness on the hair banding analysis surely did know. He knew that he could make that same banding on a live person's hair in his own living room by submerging it in water for a period of time. Hmmmm......hair banding coming from a dead child was "out" for me.
Let's see....what else. Oh. I went back and reviewed the mountains of case studies from the Body Farm experiments conducted by Dr. Vass in Tennessee. The main compounds of decomposition, which are used to train cadaver dogs, are also present in many other rotting materials. 41% of the same chemicals are found in gasoline. But something else was interesting in his research, compared to his testimony. In his main "claim to fame" study in 2003 from his research for THE US GOVERNMENT (DECOMPOSITIONAL ODOR ANALYSIS DATABASE - PHASE I), Vass was all excited about is notable "discovery" of the presence the fluorinated compounds in the air above a rotting corpse. He was thrilled with this finding, and opined about it in the Study. Here are his exact words:
Of all the classes of volatile compounds detected during the decompositional cycle, the fluorinated compounds are the most interesting and unexpected. Determining the source of the fluorinated compounds still remains a mystery. It is assumed that since much of the water in this country is fluorinated, the ingested fluoride is principally incorporated into bone and, to a lesser extent, soft tissue, being slowly liberated during soft tissue decomposition and skeletal diagenesis (22-23). Microbial modification could also be taking place, since halogenated compounds are known for their stability and the halogenated compounds detected in this study are not normally found in drinking water. Chlorinated hydrocarbons (and chloro-fluoro compounds) may also be formed by similar mechanisms from the significant amounts of chloride ions present in the body. Since the subjects in this study were briefly stored in the Knoxville Medical Examiner's morgue, we sampled the morgue for the presence of these compounds since it has been observed that fluorinated compounds easily adhere to surfaces for long time periods (Dr. Marcus Wise, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pers. comm.) and are generated by refrigeration type units such as those found in morgues. While fluorinated compounds were detected in small amounts, they were, in most cases, different compounds than what was detected at the graves. Areas of the world which do not have fluorinated drinking water do not show fluorinated compounds present in decompositional samples (Bart Smedts, Koninklijke Militaire School, Brussels, pers. comm.) giving credence to this hypothesis.
It is interesting to note that dichlorodifluoroethane was not detected in below body samples, but only appeared above body and at the surface indicating: 1) that it was not a natural background component, and 2) that is was most likely formed after the primary decompositional process had occurred.
Now, in the Casey Anthony case, the Defense asked him if he found fluorinated compounds in that air he tested. He said no. The defense knew how that fluorinated compound stuff made him all giddy and proud of himself. But in Casey's trunk, IT WASN'T THERE. NONE. So how did he explain this very telling absence of fluoride? He said that Caylee was very young, and probably didn't have enough fluoride in her system yet!!!! That's actually what he said! Well sir, I guess he forget about the study he did himself at the Body Farm, wherein they put a three year old WRAPPED IN A BLANKET in the trunk of a car and let him rot. They tested that air, too. Guess what was present? FLOURIDE! Anyway - Baez never caught that, but I did a little homework on that one witness, and checked his testimony against his own research, and found him to be a big fat zero.
With all this said, do I think George had anything to do with this? No, probably not. Do I think Caylee drowned in the pool? hell no! But guess what....I have no idea how that poor child met her fate while she was in the custody of her mother. And neither does anyone else. That my friend, is why the jury did their job. They did not run away with scepticism, or make insinuations. They are not supposed to. God help us if our morality determines whether someone believes we committed a first degree murder or not! The problem could have been solved by the senior State filing attorneys at the Orange County State Attorney's Office. This wasn't Ashton's fault. It was his boss' faults. They did not include enough for the jury to choose from in the indictment. They knew what evidence they had, and didn't have, but still made Ashton go out there, without the proper weapons, and fight to the death. If a negligent homicide had been listed in the indictment, Casey wouldn't have been able to make up that pool drowning story, now would she. She'd have been admitting to that crime from the get go. If they had included a mishandling of a corpse charge, she'd be sitting in jail for years. But that wasn't on that indictment, either. If they had charged SOMETHING else beside intentional murder, or murder with chloroform....she'd be sitting in jail a very long time for the crime she did commit. That child died in her custody. If it wasn't for Casey Anthony, that child would still be alive. That's all I do know. But did the jury have enough evidence to convict her of chloroforming her child even once? Let alone, that being a murder weapon? No. This is a shame. The senior filing attorneys who decided what to indict this woman on should be fired. "